Richard Dawson

Richard Dawson--actor, game-show host and professional charmer--was best known as a sly, saucy daytime-TV conversationalist on, most famously, Family Feud. At least half the fun was how the quick-witted Dawson played off his guests and deflected their flubs. Feud was a show about people. The questions were not about facts; rather, they asked how a contestant thought most other people would answer, regardless of whether they were right or wrong. ("Survey says!") And Dawson, who died June 2 at 79, was a people person. He joked with the men, flirted with the ladies--and famously kissed them, every one--reveled with the winners...